Archived event
Performance details
Thursday 17 November 2022 at 7.30pm
Saturday 19 November 2022 at 7.30pm
Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall
Friday 18 November 2022 at 7.30pm
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
James Ehnes director & violin
Program
Ligeti Six Miniatures
Bartók Divertimento for Strings
Beethoven Violin Concerto
About this performance
The Orchestra takes the lead in a program of bold Hungarian repertoire, followed by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto directed and performed by James Ehnes.
- György Ligeti arranged Six Bagatelles for wind quintet from a cycle of piano pieces he had written years previously, Musica ricercata. Ten members of the MSO woodwind section will perform these vivacious and intricate vignettes to open the program.
- Then, the strings of the MSO take to the stage for Bartók’s Divertimento. Heavily influenced by the rhythms and tonalities of Eastern European folk music, Bartók composed the work in a Swiss Alps chalet owned by the commissioner of the work.
- Beethoven’s Violin Concerto was composed for prodigy Franz Clement. The concerto did not immediately catch on with audiences; it wasn’t until forty years later, when thirteen-year-old Joseph Joachim performed the piece under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn, that it entered the standard repertoire.
Duration: approx. 105 minutes including interval
